Re: Up to around, or more, again


"John Dean" <john-dean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Mike Lyle wrote:
The latest _New Scientist_ quotes a nice percentage estimate from a
catalogue: "Lighting can account for up to 25-40 per cent or more of
your household electricity bill." "There's no arguing with that,"
notes Geoffrey Hammersely [a reader]. "But why the uncertainty
implied by 'can'?" My theory is that the form of words was
scrupulously chosen to include the possibility that you use only oil
lamps, candles, or nothing.


I'd have thought it was to account for the fact that people use
different kinds and strengths of lighting. Some peeps use energy
saving bulbs, some standard tungsten, some halogen etc. Some are quick
to turn off unused lights, some leave them on ready for when they
return to a room. Some like to spend their evenings in the muted glow
of a standard lamp and a couple of table lamps, some like the
daylight-brightness of a chandelier. cf Al Gore.
It even matters what time you go to bed and what time you get up. And
it matters particularly what else you run of the electric. Electric
fires round the house will reduce the share of the bill attributable
to lighting.

I think that if the speaker adds "or more" to a range of %s, then he
should think again, expand the range of %s and drop the "or more".

In winter, I have an incandescent bulb in my reading lamp. That and a
blankie keep me comfortably and cheaply warm, for a while in the
evenings. Oh, yes, and a touch of hot tea. I don't have to turn up the
heat before bedtime.

We in the US are planning on an early DST this year.
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